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We study a generalized version of the Hamiltonian constraint operator in nonperturbative loop quantum gravity. The generalization is based on admitting arbitrary irreducible SU(2) representations in the regularization of the operator, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcus Gaul , Carlo Rovelli

This is the second paper in the series to introduce a graphical method to loop quantum gravity. We employ the graphical method as a powerful tool to calculate the actions of the Euclidean Hamiltonian constraint operator and the so-called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-25 Jinsong Yang , Yongge Ma

The Hamiltonian constraint remains an elusive object in loop quantum gravity because its action on spinnetworks leads to changes in their corresponding graphs. As a result, calculations in loop quantum gravity are often considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Markus Müller , Francesca Vidotto

We introduce a new technique for dealing with the matrix elements of the Hamiltonian operator in loop quantum gravity, based on the use of intertwiners projected on coherent states of angular momentum. We give explicit expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 Emanuele Alesci , Jerzy Lewandowski , Ilkka Mäkinen

This work introduces a new space $\T'_*$ of `vertex-smooth' states for use in the loop approach to quantum gravity. Such states provide a natural domain for Euclidean Hamiltonian constraint operators of the type introduced by Thiemann (and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Jerzy Lewandowski , Donald Marolf

In this article we examine a Hamiltonian constraint operator governing the dynamics of simple quantum states, whose graph consists of a single six-valent vertex, in quantum-reduced loop gravity. To this end, we first derive the action of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Ilkka Mäkinen

We study the near-kernel sector of the Hamiltonian constraint operator in the one-vertex model of quantum reduced loop gravity using variational Monte Carlo methods with neural quantum states. The analysis is based on the symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Ilkka Mäkinen , Hanno Sahlmann , Waleed Sherif

A new symmetric Hamiltonian constraint operator is proposed for loop quantum gravity, which is well defined in the Hilbert space of diffeomorphism invariant states up to non-planar vertices with valence higher than three. It inherits the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-04 Jinsong Yang , Yongge Ma

An analysis of the action of the Hamiltonian constraint of quantum gravity on the Kauffman bracket and Jones knot polynomials is proposed. It is explicitely shown that the Kauffman bracket is a formal solution of the Hamiltonian constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Jorge Griego

In the model of a fermion field coupled to loop quantum gravity, we consider the Gauss and the Hamiltonian constraints. According to the explicit solutions to the Gauss constraint, the fermion spins and the gravitational spin networks…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-14 Jerzy Lewandowski , Cong Zhang

Although the physical Hamiltonian operator can be constructed in the deparameterized model of loop quantum gravity coupled to a scalar field, its property is still unknown. This open issue is attacked in this paper by considering an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-17 Cong Zhang , Jerzy Lewandowski , Yongge Ma

We show that in the spin-network basis it is possible to compute the matrix elements of any given operator of the Hamiltonian formulation of Lattice Gauge Theory (LGT). We give the explicit calculation for the case of the plaquette…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Burgio , R. De Pietri , H. A. Morales-Tecotl , L. F. Urrutia , J. D. Vergara

We point out several features of the quantum Hamiltonian constraints recently introduced by Thiemann for Euclidean gravity. In particular we discuss the issue of the constraint algebra and of the quantum realization of the object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Rodolfo Gambini , Jerzy Lewandowski , Donald Marolf , Jorge Pullin

We discretize the Hamiltonian scalar constraint of three-dimensional Riemannian gravity on a graph of the loop quantum gravity phase space. This Hamiltonian has a clear interpretation in terms of discrete geometries: it computes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-12 Valentin Bonzom , Laurent Freidel

We present the construction of a physical Hamiltonian operator in the deparametrized model of loop quantum gravity coupled to a free scalar field. This construction is based on the use of the recently introduced curvature operator, and on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Emanuele Alesci , Mehdi Assanioussi , Jerzy Lewandowski , Ilkka Mäkinen

We analyze the issue of anomaly-free representations of the constraint algebra in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) in the context of a diffeomorphism-invariant gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions. We construct a Hamiltonian constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Adam Henderson , Alok Laddha , Casey Tomlin

In the framework of loop quantum gravity, we define a new Hilbert space of states which are solutions of a large number of components of the diffeomorphism constraint. On this Hilbert space, using the methods of Thiemann, we obtain a family…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jerzy Lewandowski , Hanno Sahlmann

We introduce a master constraint operator $\hat{\mathbf{M}}$ densely defined in the diffeomorphism invariant Hilbert space in loop quantum gravity, which corresponds classically to the master constraint in the programme. It is shown that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Muxin Han , Yongge Ma

We study matrix elements of the "chromomagnetic" operator on the lattice. This operator is contained in the strangeness-changing effective Hamiltonian which describes electroweak effects in the Standard Model and beyond. Having dimension 5,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-06 M. Constantinou , M. Costa , R. Frezzotti , V. Lubicz , G. Martinelli , D. Meloni , H. Panagopoulos , S. Simula

In loop quantum gravity (LQG), states of the gravitational field are represented by labeled graphs called spin networks. Their dynamics can be described by a Hamiltonian constraint, { which acts on the spin network states modifying both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Francesca Vidotto , Markus Müller
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